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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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d no longer, but mounted upand flew slowly to the woods, where he lighted in a big maple. There wecould see him hopping from limb to limb, as if enjoying the time of his life,and afterward preening his feathers and getting ready for the journey fromwhich I had not the heart to turn him back. I saw him sail down the valley,and for a week, at least, I hoped that he might return of his own free willfor food; but, as the days went by and there was no sight of him, I watchedno longer. He had entered into the liberty that every wild thing craves andinherits as its natural right. The most striking, and, perhaps the most pathetic part of this experiencewith a bird so intelligent as a Hawk, is its attempt to accommodate itself to newconditions that are in opposition to its heredity. Johnny tried to think andact in terms of a human being. That he succeeded to an astonishing degree,none can dispute, and, since having this experience, I cannot wonder that theancient Egyptians worshipped the Hawk.
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SAVANNAH SPARROWPhotographed by Guy A. Bailey, Geneseo, N. Y. The Migration of North American Kinglets Compiled by Prof. W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey With a Drawing by Louis Agassiz Fif,rtf:s(See Frontispiece) KENNICOTT WILLOW WARBLER Using the name of the Kennicott Willow Warbler for the bird of both theEastern and the Western Hemispheres, the species has a wide distribution inthe breeding season from Finmark to northeastern Siberia and south to Mon-golia and southeastern Siberia; on the Alaska side it breeds from the KowakRiver south to the Nushagak River. It deserts the Western Hemisphereentirely in winter, and ranges south at this season to China, the Indo-ChineseProvinces, Formosa, Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. It is strictly migratory,but almost nothing has been recorded concerning its times of migration. Itwas taken at Marcova, Siberia, May 28, 1901, and arrived at Nijni Kolymsk,near the Arctic coast of Siberia, May 30, 1912. It is probable that the sp

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